| “Besides a great many used on the ground, from 1729 to 1763, plants were | |||
| drawn out and sold to the amount of | £100 | 0 | 0 |
| In the year 1764 by 1500 poles sold | 50 | 0 | 0 |
| In the year„ 1765 by 1374 poles sold„ | 50 | 0 | 0 |
| In the year„ 1767 by 468 poles sold„ | 30 | 0 | 0 |
| In the year„ 177O by 501 poles sold„ | 39 | 18 | 0 |
| In the year„ 1771 by 440 poles sold„ | 21 | 0 | 0 |
| In the year„ 1777 by 280 poles sold„ | 21 | 0 | 0 |
| In the year„ 1781 by 150 poles sold„ | 80 | 0 | 0 |
| In the year„ 1793 by 101 poles sold„ | 21 | 0 | 0 |
| In the year„ 1794 by 150 poles sold„ | 105 | 0 | 0 |
| In the year„ 1797 by 30 trees sold | 20 | 0 | 0 |
| In the year„ 1799 by 100 poles sold„ | 60 | 0 | 0 |
| From the year 1800 to 1810 by 307 trees sold | 389 | 12 | 0 |
| From„ 1811 to the year 1821 by 94 trees sold„ | 219 | 0 | 0 |
| From„ 1821 to the year„ 1833 by 36 trees sold„ | 108 | 0 | 0 |
| £1314 | 10 | 0 | |
| The underwood never came to perfection, but was stubbed up in the year 1767, and the feed of the ground let for 10s. an acre for thirty years |
120 | 0 | 0 |
| Value of the feed at the same price to the present time |
144 | 0 | 0 |
| There are now 320 trees standing, worth if now felled |
1200 | 0 | 0 |
| £2778 | 10 | 0 | |
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"The expenses of felling cannot be now correctly ascertained, but the topwood is not included in the above account of receipts, nor a great many trees which have been used on the premises from the year 1763 to the present time, and at a moderate estimate must have much more than paid for the expenses of the labour.—Thos. Howes, Morningthorpe, April 22nd, 1834.”[1]
The Earl of Darnley showed me an oak in “Mount Meadow,” near Cobham, planted by Lady Elizabeth Brownlow, who was born in the year 1800, which therefore could not be much over 100 years old. It has a straight clean bole measuring about 40 feet by 12 feet 10 inches, and a small spreading top.
The following extract from a letter of Robert Marsham to Gilbert White is worth quoting, though I could not identify the tree when I visited the place recently.
“Stratton, 24th July 1790.—I early began planting, and an oake which I
- ↑ Sir Hugh Beevor in 1902 measured eleven of the oaks remaining in this grove, which was nearly all felled in 1885, and found that they averaged 80 to 90 feet high by 8 feet 2 inches in girth at 6 feet, the cubic contents being about 145 feet each.
